The audit follows scores of complaints filed through the office’s hotline about the process by which the funding was awarded.
The audit will be part of the state office’s annual accountability review of Seattle government and will look at how the city council granted the group, King County Equity Now, a contract to conduct research. The results of the audit will not be made public until the spring or summer.
King County Equity Now was born out of the summer’s protests. Although the demonstrations themselves were largely leaderless, the organization became the most prominent voice directly lobbying the city council for changes to systems of public safety.
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